Knowledge Is Essential To Freedom.

Others Are Affected By What I Am, And Say, And Do. So That A Single Act Of Mine May Spread And Spread In Widening Circles, Through A Nation Or Humanity. Through My Vice I Intensify The Taint Of Vice Throughout The Universe. Through My Misery I Make Multitudes Sad. On The Other Hand, Every Development Of My Virtue Makes Me An Ampler Blessing To My Race. Every New Truth That I Gain Makes Me A Brighter Light To Humanity.

Grandeur Of Character Lies Wholly In Force Of Soul, That Is, In The Force Of Thought, Moral Principle, And Love, And This May Be Found In The Humblest Condition Of Life

Be True To Your Own Highest Convictions.

But The Ground Of A Man's Culture Lies In His Nature, Not In His Calling. His Powers Are To Be Unfolded On Account Of Their Inherent Dignity, Not Their Outward Direction. He Is To Be Educated, Because He Is A Man, Not Because He Is To Make Shoes, Nail, Or Pins.

Poetry Reveals To Us The Loveliness Of Nature, Brings Back The Freshness Of Youthful Feelings, Reviews The Relish Of Simple Pleasures, Keeps Unquenched The Enthusiasm Which Warmed The Springtime Of Our Being, Refines Youthful Love, Strengthens Our Interest In Human Mature, By Vivid Delineations Of Its Tenderest And Softest Feelings, And Through The Brightness Of Its Prophetic Visions, Helps Faith To Lay Hold On The Future Life.